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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.”
“What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy.
“Natural disasters,” said Nib.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“All that I am is a terribly brave small thing, with a terribly brave small life, and a terribly brave love that spans eons.”
― K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

“Love is not about holding people where you want them. It is about doing what's best for them because you need them to be okay.”
― K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars

“You deserve to heal and grow, too. You deserve to have someone to talk to about your problem; you deserve unconditional support; you deserve care and safety and all the things you need to thrive. Just because you may not have them doesn’t mean you don’t deserve them. If someone tells you that you don’t deserve those things, they are lying. Keep trying your best. Ask for help when you need it. Do your best to be brave, but it is okay not to be. If you drop the weight you’re carrying, it is okay. You can build yourself back up out of the pieces. If your mind stops listening to you, it’s not your fault. There are billions of us; you are not alone.”
― K. Ancrum, The Wicker King

“There is a difference between being nice and being kind. Being nice is about being polite. It gets the job done, clean and orderly. You are nice to people you don't know in the store buying groceries, or to a kitten you find under a car in the winter. It is doing what you should, when you're supposed to and how you're supposed to, when the time is right [...] Being kind is different. Harder. It means doing what is best even when the cost is high. It's saying something that hurt and hurt and hurt right now, so it wouldn't have to hurt ever again.”
― K. Ancrum, The Legend of the Golden Raven

“Is anything 'just' anything? After all these months? Even dressed in my colors? Even with your favor at my feet? Even as the sky falls and the only thing I can hear besides your voice is the screams of the dying and the thundering of horses?”
― K. Ancrum, The Wicker King

“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“We laugh & it pits the world against us.”
― Richard Siken

“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

“How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

“We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander

“There is a lot about what is going on here that I don’t understand. But I am participating anyway.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“I don’t want to not see you again.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“Hold my hand in yours, and we will not fear what hands like ours can do.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.”
― Herbert Mason, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“Death is a mystery and must always remain such.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“Even the gods
Cowered like dogs at what they had done.”
― Herbert Mason, The Epic of Gilgamesh

“I know history. There are many names in history

but none of them are ours.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“If the dead are watching, I want them to see us writing, dancing, singing, painting. I want them to see that we still reach out to each other.”
― Richard Siken

“You ask me why I dwell
amidst these jade-green hills?
I smile. No words can tell
the stillness in my heart.
Peach blossoms drift streamwater
away deep in mystery.
I live in the other world
one that lies beyond the human. ”
― Bai Li

“Since Life is but a dream,
Why toil to no avail?”
― Li Bai

“You and I -- we're just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I know about a lot of things, but only a little in each regard.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built